The Charles Dickens 200th birthday quiz answers
Answers
1. Mr Merdle in little Dorrit; bill Sikes in Oliver Twist; Barnaby Rudge in the same novel; miss Flite in Bleak House
2. Porter and ‘Resurrectionist’ (A Tale of Two Cities); Taxidermist (Our Mutual Friend); Barber in Martin Chuzzlewit; Lawyer in Bleak House
3. bill Sikes in Oliver Twist; Stephen Blackpool in Hard Times; Rigaud in little Dorrit
4. Mr Dick in David Copperfield; Sydney Carton in a Tale of Two Cities; the Fat Boy in Pickwick Papers
5. Captain Cuttle in Dombey and Son; Krook in Bleak House; Quilp in the old Curiosity Shop; the Ghost of Christmas Present in a Christmas Carol Fanny Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby Silas Wegg in Our Mutual Friend
6. David talking about Dora in David Copperfield; the once unaccountably popular character of Dolly Varden in Barnaby Rudge; Scrooge’s Niece in a Christmas Carol – almost impossible as so shamefully generic she could be one of a dozen other characters
7. Dombey and Son; the old Curiosity Shop; a Christmas Carol
8. Lady Tippins in Our Mutual Friend; Pip on miss Haversham in Great Expectations; Cleopatra Skewton in Dombey and Son
9. Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; little Dorrit
10. Nicholas Nickleby: a combative friend of Mr Toots in Dombey and Son; Sissy Jupe in Hard Times
11. Barnaby Rudge; Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; Hard Times; Great Expectations; Pickwick Papers again
12. Mrs Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit; Mr Peggotty in David Copperfield; Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers
13. The old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby; the Pickwick Papers
